Hatchet
A Newbery Honor Book
by Gary Paulsen
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Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop. plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a gift prior to his departure.
The only survivor of a plane crash, Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to cope with only a hatchet given him by his mother and also learning to survive his parents' divorce.
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Canada, Hampton, New York StateShowing 11 featured editions. View all 81 editions?
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Hatchet: 30th Anniversary Edition
Oct 03, 2017, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
paperback
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Shou fu nan hai: Shou bu qu
2013, Ji lin wen shi chu ban she
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Hatchet
July 1, 2005, Macmillan Children's Books, Macmillan Children's
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Hatchet: A Newbery Honor Book
October 1999, Scholastic Inc., by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a div. of Penguin Books USA, Inc.
Paperback
in English
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059098182X 9780590981828
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Hatchet
1999, Aladdin Paperbacks, Scholastic Inc.
in English
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Edition Notes
Printed in the U.S.A.* / Reprint: Originally published: New York : Viking Penguin, ©1987. / "First Scholastic printing, Oct 1999"--Title page verso. " / *Sequel: The river.
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"BRIAN ROBESON stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below."
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Brian Robison, a teenage boy struggling through his parents divorce, is flying up north to stay with his dad for the summer. However, his plane crashes and he is forced to survive the Canadian wilderness. Now living in a world completely opposite of his own, he is now able to discover himself in this forsaken and misunderstood beautiful world.
The story is continued in "The River" "Brian's Winter" "Brian's Return" and "The Hunt"
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